Ryan Murphy’s Teen Serial Killer Thriller The Shards Gets Stuck in the Shallow End

Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis' FX adaptation of Ellis' '80s teen serial killer novel never grasps the poignancy it's reaching for

Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, Hayes Warner, Graham Campbell and Kaia Gerber lead this series adaptation of Ellis' loosely autobiographical novel set in early-'80s Los Angeles.

So much of author and iconoclast Bret Easton Ellis‘s brand is devoted to aesthetic beauty and how it can mask a festering, often violent, rot beneath. FX‘s The Shards — premiering tonight at 9 PM ET on FX and Hulu — is the latest manifestation of this: a glossy, glamorous Ryan Murphy joint following a group of the most

The director’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s metafictional thriller-slash-gay-awakening story is a “Glee”-ified version of its source material.

In some ways, an adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel “The Shards” has had some of the heavy lifting done for it. Ellis’ cooly detached prose style embodies the shameless materialism of its Reagan era setting with an obsessive catalog of proper nouns: what kind of cars its characters drive; the brand of clothes…

The Shards brings the cocaine-addled teens of a 1980s prep school to life with a cast of newcomers and a heavy dose of sleaze One of the first things Ryan Murphy’s TV adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s The Shards will make you ask is: where the hell are these kids’ parents? The answer is simple. This is Los Angeles in 1